Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar

Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar (Ar:روكان رزوقي عبد الغفور, born 1956 in Tikrit, died 2003)[1] was the head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and a member of Saddam's inner circle.

He was #21 on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis [2] (previously #39), and was represented by the "nine of spades" in the deck of playing cards that were printed to accompany the list.

Al-Ghafar was killed in an airstrike in 2003.[3] He was removed from the US State Department's Rewards for Justice list in 2010.[4]

References

  1. ↑ United Nations Security Council (27 July 2005). "List of Individuals persuant to resolution 1438". Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  2. ↑ Matthew Beard (15 December 2003). "Most wanted list is now down to 13 from a starting pack of 55". The Independent. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "صدام حسين من الزنزانة الامريكية : هذا ماحدث". Dhiqar.net. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  4. ↑ Archived April 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.



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